quitting smoking

Today is National Kick Butts Day, where they urge you to using tobacco for one day. The goal is that if you can make it one day without cigarettes, you know you can do it. I smoked my last cigarette 16 months ago, and it wasn't any tricks or patches, or gum that got me to quit. &nbs…

I quit smoking 5 months ago. That was honest to God my last cigarette. I haven't taken a puff since. The rewards have been worth not going back. I feel better, I smell better, my sense of taste is better, all of that stuff is true. I rarely have cravings anymore, b…

It was on my daughters 2nd birthday when I decided that I was done smoking. I had tried to quit completely about 6 or 7 times with no luck. The difference this time is that I really didn't want to smoke anymore, because I was noticing the effects it was having on my health. I had this unrealisti…

I smoked my first cigarette in 2002. We were drinking at a college party and I thought, "What the heck, I'll try a smoke." One thing lead to another, and like it does for so many people, I was hooked within a few weeks. At my worst, I was smoking a pack…